Fla. Stat. 11.047
Contingency fees; prohibitions; penalties

(1)

“Contingency fee” means a fee, bonus, commission, or nonmonetary benefit as compensation which is dependent or in any way contingent on the enactment, defeat, modification, or other outcome of any specific legislative action.

(2)

No person may, in whole or in part, pay, give, or receive, or agree to pay, give, or receive, a contingency fee. However, this subsection does not apply to claims bills.

(3)

Any person who violates this section commits a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083. If such person is a lobbyist, the lobbyist shall forfeit any fee, bonus, commission, or profit received in violation of this section and is subject to the penalties set forth in s. 11.045. When the fee, bonus, commission, or profit is nonmonetary, the fair market value of the benefit shall be used in determining the amount to be forfeited. All forfeited benefits collected shall be deposited into the Legislative Lobbyist Registration Trust Fund.

(4)

This section does not apply to any contract providing for compensation by contingency fee which is in existence on the date this act becomes a law and which does not provide for compensation by contingency fee for lobbying after December 31, 1993.

(5)

Nothing in this section may be construed to prohibit any salesperson engaging in legitimate state business on behalf of a company from receiving compensation or commission as part of a bona fide contractual arrangement with that company.

Source: Section 11.047 — Contingency fees; prohibitions; penalties, https://www.­flsenate.­gov/Laws/Statutes/2024/0011.­047 (accessed Aug. 7, 2025).

11.02
Notice of special or local legislation or certain relief acts 11.03
Proof of publication of notice 11.07
Method of enrolling bills, etc 11.011
Special session 11.12
Salary, subsistence, and mileage of members and employees 11.13
Compensation of members 11.021
Evidence of publication of notice 11.25
Salaries and expenditures not subject to control of executive agencies 11.26
Legislative employees 11.031
Official census 11.40
Legislative Auditing Committee 11.42
The Auditor General 11.044
Legislative intent and purpose 11.45
Definitions 11.045
Lobbying before the Legislature 11.47
Penalties 11.047
Contingency fees 11.51
Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability 11.52
Implementation of enacted legislation 11.061
State, state university, and community college employee lobbyists 11.62
Legislative review of proposed regulation of unregulated functions 11.062
Use of state funds for lobbying prohibited 11.065
Claims against state 11.066
Suits seeking monetary damages against the state or its agencies 11.90
Legislative Budget Commission 11.93
Short title 11.111
Continuance of certain causes for term of Legislature and period of time prior and subsequent thereto and committee workdays 11.131
Monetary supplements prohibited 11.135
Legislative committees, units, and offices 11.143
Standing or select committees 11.147
Office of Legislative Services 11.151
Annual legislative appropriation to contingency fund for use of President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives 11.241
Permanent statutory revision plan created 11.242
Powers, duties, and functions as to statutory revision 11.243
Publishing Florida Statutes 11.249
Commissioners to the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws 11.0431
Legislative records 11.0451
Requirements for reinstitution of lobbyist registration after felony conviction 11.0455
Electronic filing of compensation reports and other information 11.931
Applicability 11.932
Definitions 11.933
Qualifications of delegates and alternate delegates 11.934
Instructions to delegates 11.935
Article V convention advisory group 11.1465
Services provided to Legislature 11.2421
Florida Statutes 2024 adopted 11.2422
Statutes repealed 11.2423
Laws or statutes not repealed 11.2424
Laws not repealed 11.2425
Rights reserved under repealed statutes 11.2427
Conflict of laws 11.9005
Government Efficiency Task Force 11.9331
Appointment of delegates by Legislature 11.9332
Appointment by majority vote of each chamber 11.9333
Recall 11.9334
Method of appointment and recall 11.9335
Reimbursement of per diem and travel expenses 11.9336
Oath 11.9337
Filing of oath 11.9341
Duties of alternate delegates 11.9342
Vote cast outside the scope of instructions or limits 11.9343
Vote cast outside the scope of instructions or limits 11.9344
Vote cast outside the scope of instructions or limits 11.9345
Vote cast outside the scope of instructions 11.9351
Oversight of delegates with respect to instructions 11.9352
Advisory determination concerning a vote outside the scope of instructions

Current through Fall 2025

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